TRIAD Trailer Delivers Old School Hong Kong Gangster Thrills
Blood-Brotherhood And Other Rites of Male Alliance
Saturday, October 06, 2012
A Bad Case of Nostalgia
I know it's serious when even even the closing for MASH, which I disliked when I was growing up because it was boring (I didn't understand the humor), causes a flash of sadness now. So what is the psychologicla explanation for this? A consequence of my growing up with the TV as a friend instead of socializing with others? I did have friends at school, but I never saw or played with them outside of school. I don't remember many other children on the block. The TV shows provided familiarity, comfort, and the virtual presence of other people? I wonder if I am alone in this or if it is a common psychological condition.
The Weirdness that is Japan
Or more accurately, the land where anything can be commercialized?
Eve Tushnet, Japan’s First “Cuddle Cafe” Lets You Sleep with a Stranger for Y6000 an Hour: Japan Today
I was thinking of using "social atomism" as a new tag, but it seems like an oxymoron.
Eve Tushnet, Japan’s First “Cuddle Cafe” Lets You Sleep with a Stranger for Y6000 an Hour: Japan Today
I was thinking of using "social atomism" as a new tag, but it seems like an oxymoron.
Jared Taylor at Towson University
L. Auster has posted a reader's link to a talk by Jared Taylor at Towson University. Counter-Currents has posted the video taken by American Renaissance.
The Gang in Blue
Some thoughts I didn't complete for the End of Watch review.
JG's character, in the voiceover narration at the beginning of the movie, talks about him and his partner being part of the thin blue line that protects the rest of society from criminals. What if we abstract from their status with respect to the law and just look at the "sociology" of the two groups. Could a comparison be made using the movie between the gang-bangers and the police officers, two different sort of fraternities or tribes? Some libertarians and anarchists look at law enforcement as just another armed gang which is sanctioned to use violence against others. For now I still think the division between the two is as clear as that between black and white, but will things change if the state begins to collapse?
As I said in the review, the movie may be too close to reality in its depiction of people's characters and the state or our morals. Rather than vicariously experiencing the friendship of the two police officers, would it not be better for us use the time to actually form and deepen friendships with other men? Women may enjoy the film because they yearn for that sort of manliness, but how many of them would tolerate it in their own lives or in society at large?
*spoiler warning*
JG's character, in the voiceover narration at the beginning of the movie, talks about him and his partner being part of the thin blue line that protects the rest of society from criminals. What if we abstract from their status with respect to the law and just look at the "sociology" of the two groups. Could a comparison be made using the movie between the gang-bangers and the police officers, two different sort of fraternities or tribes? Some libertarians and anarchists look at law enforcement as just another armed gang which is sanctioned to use violence against others. For now I still think the division between the two is as clear as that between black and white, but will things change if the state begins to collapse?
As I said in the review, the movie may be too close to reality in its depiction of people's characters and the state or our morals. Rather than vicariously experiencing the friendship of the two police officers, would it not be better for us use the time to actually form and deepen friendships with other men? Women may enjoy the film because they yearn for that sort of manliness, but how many of them would tolerate it in their own lives or in society at large?
*spoiler warning*
HSB 2012
Decided not to go to HSB today because I was feeling tired and I didn't want to deal with the traffic or the crowds. Maybe next year; or I'll have to wait for Sierra Hull, Cowboy Junkies, Alison Brown Quartet with Stuart Duncan, The Chieftains, and Sara Watkins to come for some other occasion. Can't go tomorrow because of other duties.
Arrow Stage is being streamed live. I think it is featuring mostly alt-country today? I don't know any of the groups. How about The Trishas?
Allison Moorer:
Arrow Stage is being streamed live. I think it is featuring mostly alt-country today? I don't know any of the groups. How about The Trishas?
Allison Moorer:
Friday, October 05, 2012
ASPO 2012
YT channel
Jeremy Wakeford - Peak Oil Mitigation of the Transport Sector
Robert Hirsch - The Impending World Oil Shortage: Learning from the Past
Jeremy Wakeford - Peak Oil Mitigation of the Transport Sector
Robert Hirsch - The Impending World Oil Shortage: Learning from the Past
Thursday, October 04, 2012
"We feel that..."
Uttered by Dick Van Dyke's character on the Dick Van Dyke Show. I was flipping through the channels during a commercial break for Person of Interest and caught him saying this while the families of Rob and Laura Petrie discussed names for their unborn child.
I have remarked on the substitution of "I feel" for "I think" - apparently this had been taking place in American mass media in the '60s. When did this shift in language start becoming prevalent? Did this change in the spoken language precede emotivist theories of ethics (and language)?
Has anyone done the changes for Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" to reflect this understanding of human nature?
I have remarked on the substitution of "I feel" for "I think" - apparently this had been taking place in American mass media in the '60s. When did this shift in language start becoming prevalent? Did this change in the spoken language precede emotivist theories of ethics (and language)?
Has anyone done the changes for Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" to reflect this understanding of human nature?
Managerialism...
The Sixties Regime in Power: The Dangerous Shortcomings of the Managerial Class by James Kalb
P. Blond, David Cameron has lost his chance to redefine the Tories
He has abandoned the vision of one-nation conservatism that so inspired me, and retoxified his party
P. Blond, David Cameron has lost his chance to redefine the Tories
He has abandoned the vision of one-nation conservatism that so inspired me, and retoxified his party
Donald Prudlo on St. Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi: Pattern for Lay Holiness
He does make reference to the biography of St. Francis by Fr. Augustine.
He does make reference to the biography of St. Francis by Fr. Augustine.
Shannon Hayes, Long Way on a Little
A ‘radical homemaker’ shares her secret to greener, more affordable meat eating
By Twilight Greenaway
The publisher of her new book: Chelsea Green.
Her website.
Radical Homemakers
Grassfed Cooking
By Twilight Greenaway
The publisher of her new book: Chelsea Green.
Her website.
Radical Homemakers
Grassfed Cooking
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Items of Interest, 3 October 2012
(via Dr. Helen)
Manly Honor: Part 1 - What is Honor?
CRW interview with Chilton Williamson, Jr - Has Democracy Died? (via Insight Scoop)
Radical simplicity and the middle class by Samuel Alexander (EB)
‘Degrowth is not a liberal agenda: Relocalisation and the limits to low energy cosmopolitanism’ by Stephen Quilley (EB)
High-priced fuel syndrome by Gail Tverberg (EB)
Occupy Education: Two reviews by Mark Garavan and Anne B. Ryan (EB)
Robert Bork, Coercing Virtue
The Moral Duty to (Not) Vote by Andrew Haines
The following two (along with the piece that I posted yesterday, Jacques Maritain, the HHS Mandate, and the Failure of American Pluralism) merit some sort of response from a paleo/traditional conservative perspective:
Can there be Statesmen? A MacIntyrean Challenge to Trepanier's Aristotle by Thaddeus J. Kozinski [see David Schindler]
Why Libertarians Are Wrong About Subsidiarity Part I by Richard Gallenstein
Sacra Liturgia 2013
A live chat with the creator of P90X: Join me, Tony Horton, on Thursday Oct. 4 for a LIVE video chat
Interviews with Tony Horton after the jump.
Manly Honor: Part 1 - What is Honor?
CRW interview with Chilton Williamson, Jr - Has Democracy Died? (via Insight Scoop)
Radical simplicity and the middle class by Samuel Alexander (EB)
‘Degrowth is not a liberal agenda: Relocalisation and the limits to low energy cosmopolitanism’ by Stephen Quilley (EB)
2.3 Plato's Revenge: Small as Bio-regional, Communitarian and Jeffersonian
With the recent publication of Plato's Revenge. Politics in the Age of Ecology (2011), Ophuls completed a trilogy on the politics of scarcity. In 1977 he had achieved a certain notoriety among environmentalists by questioning whether ecological integrity could ever be compatible with modern liberal democracy. He pointed out that the entire set of ideas, institutions and practices predicated on abundance would inevitably be replaced by new social and political forms based on scarcity.
In 1997 he extended the critique of modern liberalism, arguing that the paradigm of mass politics inherited from Hobbes and Locke, even without ecological crisis, was bound for self-destruction because it abandons the premise that a successful polity must be rooted in an unspoken but pervasive framework of virtue, itself reproduced in the context of a binding we-identity and community (or what Tönnies [1887]called 'gemeinschaft'). In Plato's Revenge, Ophuls completes the argument by sketching a possible replacement – a new communitarian philosophy and political framework rooted in the ideas of Jefferson and Rousseau, but grounded in evolutionary psychology, anthropology and Jungian psychology.
High-priced fuel syndrome by Gail Tverberg (EB)
Occupy Education: Two reviews by Mark Garavan and Anne B. Ryan (EB)
Robert Bork, Coercing Virtue
The Moral Duty to (Not) Vote by Andrew Haines
The following two (along with the piece that I posted yesterday, Jacques Maritain, the HHS Mandate, and the Failure of American Pluralism) merit some sort of response from a paleo/traditional conservative perspective:
Can there be Statesmen? A MacIntyrean Challenge to Trepanier's Aristotle by Thaddeus J. Kozinski [see David Schindler]
Why Libertarians Are Wrong About Subsidiarity Part I by Richard Gallenstein
Sacra Liturgia 2013
A live chat with the creator of P90X: Join me, Tony Horton, on Thursday Oct. 4 for a LIVE video chat
Interviews with Tony Horton after the jump.
Metropolitan Hilarion's Visit to Greece
Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates at Agia Sophia in Athens
Metropolitan Hilarion concludes his working visit to Greece
Misc:
Easter at Holy Virgin Cathedral in SF
Hierarchical Divine Liturgy - St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church - Wilkes-Barre, PA
Ancient Byzantian-Russian Liturgy Russian Orthodox [Znamenny chant - demestvennaya polyphony]
From last year: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk begins his visit to the Greek Orthodox Church
Valaam, The Jesus Prayer
Quickly Quickly Expanding?
The number of locations, especially in Asianland (i.e. Cupertino) is astounding, especially with this economy. But its clientele is probably weathering the economic storm without too many problems, for now.
wiki
There is a YT channel.
wiki
There is a YT channel.
Peter Hitchens on the Police
Whom Do the Police Serve? and Part 2
From the first part:
A Brief History of Crime or The Abolition of Liberty.
City Question Time with Peter Hitchens (Part 1)
City Question Time with Peter Hitchens (Part 2)
From the first part:
The modern belief among police officers that they are a special corps or squad, and that the rest of us are ‘civilians’, is very damaging, and utterly contradicts Sir Robert Peel’s original (and still valid) view of what a British police constable should be. The changes in law and practice that led to this state of affairs are explained in my book. My critics should read it, especially before accusing me of ignorance. Meanwhile, stay safe.
A Brief History of Crime or The Abolition of Liberty.
City Question Time with Peter Hitchens (Part 1)
City Question Time with Peter Hitchens (Part 2)
Lone Ranger trailer
They're aiming to make a more authentic-looking Tonto? Did they succeed? Is his appearance historically accurate? As for the film, I don't see them avoiding the excesses of the Pirates of the Carribean series. Whatever the flaws of the 1980 movie, at least it was more in the spirit of an old Western. This new movie is in the hyperkinetic style of MTV-inspired movie-makers, Michael Bay, or Quentin Tarantino. I don't think it fits the style of the American Western. Whatever Disney touches, it ruins.
Cowboys and Indians
HitFix - New 'Lone Ranger' images featuring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer
Something for Person of Interest:
Person of Interest - Jonathan Nolan & Greg Plageman Interview
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
News about St. Elias
See the September Newsletter.
"On 30 September, Fr Dennis Smolarski, SJ, from Santa Clara University, will serve the Divine Liturgy at St Elias Church. The first Sunday Liturgy served by Fr George Khoury will be on 7 October."
News item and video with Fr. George?
Arabic Christian Literature
Related:
Melkite Patriarch Gregorios Divine Liturgy in Rome
The pastor of St. George in Sacramento is a bi-ritual Dominican.
"On 30 September, Fr Dennis Smolarski, SJ, from Santa Clara University, will serve the Divine Liturgy at St Elias Church. The first Sunday Liturgy served by Fr George Khoury will be on 7 October."
News item and video with Fr. George?
Arabic Christian Literature
Related:
Melkite Patriarch Gregorios Divine Liturgy in Rome
The pastor of St. George in Sacramento is a bi-ritual Dominican.
Items of Interest, 2 October 2012
Mystagogy: Japanese Fighter Baptized Orthodox Christian
Catholic Music: It’s Time to Stop Making Stuff Up by Jeffrey Tucker
Tea With Honey But Not in Jerusalem: The Archbishop of Canterbury Makes His Peace With Post-Christian England by Tracey Rowland
Veteran Soldiers Go Organic
Thaddeus Kozinski, Jacques Maritain, the HHS Mandate, and the Failure of American Pluralism
Eugene Genovese:
Redeeming the Time by Eugene D. Genovese
The New Republic: From the Archives: Eugene Genovese on Eric Hobsbawm
The Squandered Century
by Eugene Genovese
Paul Gottfried, Eric Hobsbawm and the Totalitarian Double Standard
AmCon:
More from Rod Dreher on the SSJ
Jack Hunter, Whatever Happened to Civil Liberties?
Kevin Gutzman, Misjudging Rehnquist
PJB, Obama’s Foreign Policy Unravels
Counterpunch:
Ralph Nader, Rigging the Presidential Debates
Paul Craig Roberts, Cynthia McKinney on Leadership
[Intellectual] Property:
An interview with Silke Helfrich: “We have to reformulate the role of the state as enabler of the commons”
Is Property Theft?
Automobiles and Driving:
Dmitry Orlov, In Praise of Anarchy, Part 1
Occupy the Motor Industry
Music:
Psy Talks ‘Gangnam Style’ and Newfound Fame
Waylon Jennings: The 'Last Recordings' Of A Dreamer
Square Dance History Project Launches New Website - here
Catholic Music: It’s Time to Stop Making Stuff Up by Jeffrey Tucker
Tea With Honey But Not in Jerusalem: The Archbishop of Canterbury Makes His Peace With Post-Christian England by Tracey Rowland
Veteran Soldiers Go Organic
Thaddeus Kozinski, Jacques Maritain, the HHS Mandate, and the Failure of American Pluralism
Eugene Genovese:
Redeeming the Time by Eugene D. Genovese
The New Republic: From the Archives: Eugene Genovese on Eric Hobsbawm
The Squandered Century
by Eugene Genovese
Paul Gottfried, Eric Hobsbawm and the Totalitarian Double Standard
AmCon:
More from Rod Dreher on the SSJ
Jack Hunter, Whatever Happened to Civil Liberties?
Kevin Gutzman, Misjudging Rehnquist
PJB, Obama’s Foreign Policy Unravels
Counterpunch:
Ralph Nader, Rigging the Presidential Debates
Paul Craig Roberts, Cynthia McKinney on Leadership
[Intellectual] Property:
An interview with Silke Helfrich: “We have to reformulate the role of the state as enabler of the commons”
Is Property Theft?
Automobiles and Driving:
Dmitry Orlov, In Praise of Anarchy, Part 1
Occupy the Motor Industry
Music:
Psy Talks ‘Gangnam Style’ and Newfound Fame
Waylon Jennings: The 'Last Recordings' Of A Dreamer
Square Dance History Project Launches New Website - here
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